More than once Jesus made special use of a boat. This chapter is an end time prophecy concerning the re-birth of Israel:Surely the coastlands will wait for Me; and the ships of Tarshish will come first, to bring your sons from afar, their gold and silver with them, to the name of the Lord your God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you (Isaiah 60:9). [4][10], The editors of the New Oxford Annotated Bible, first published in 1962, suggest that Tarshish is either Sardinia or Tartessos. I suspect based on the Apostle Paul wanting to make it to the utter most part to spread the Gospel, it's Spain. Its one of those words that we often skip over because it seems insignificant or hard to pronounce. Gomer is the people who settled in Germany. [In] Gitin, et al. The USA and NATO use bases in Saudi Arabia to monitor the entire Persian Gulf area. Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? I. Another clue comes from Ezekiel in the Lamentation for Tyre: Tarshish was your merchant because of your many luxury goods. The word "launch," of putting a boat or a ship into the sea, has disappeared from the Revised Version (British and American), except in Luke 8:22, where it is more appropriate to an inland lake. In this version of the tale, the queen has a name: Makeda. (Ezekiel 27:25; emphasis added) What About Tarshish Today? At the height of its glory in the 7th and 6th centuries B.C.E., the ancient city of Babylon was the largest and wealthiest in the world. In recent years the Spanish people have shown increased interest in their roots and a comic series made reference to Tertessus: Probably more appealing to readers is the recent and highly successful comic series Tartessos. Hacksilber objects in these Phoenician hoards have lead isotope ratios that match ores in the silver-producing regions of Sardinia and Spain, only one of which is a large island rich in silver. This Corpus dates between 1200 and 586BC, and the hoards in it are all silver-dominant. 2nd. SHIPS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE APOCRYPHA1. Caesarea in New Testament times was a place of shipping and possessed a harbor which Josephus declared to be greater than the Piraeus, but it was Herodian and more Greek and Roman than Jewish. It is not to be supposed that the author of these passages in the Chronicles contemplated a voyage to Tarshish in the south of Spain by going round what has since been called the Cape of Good Hope. It is also interesting to note that one of Javan's sons Tarshish has become what is today modern day Spain. In his day all of Africa west of Egypt was called Libya and south of Egypt was called Ethiopia. (3) The Hebrew name of a precious stone (Ezekiel 10:9 margin, English Versions of the Bible "beryl"; Exodus 28:20; 39:13; Ezekiel 1:16; 28:13; Song of Solomon 5:14; Daniel 10:6). General ReferencesIII. Sheba, Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with the young lions of Tarshish, ask Gog why it is invading Israel. PO Box 4216 The record states: Coincidentally, there is a town named Tharsis 50 kilometres north of Huelva; the th combination, however, is a linguistic curiosity and alien to the Spanish language. As early as the 4th century BC, the Greeks, Phoenicians and Carthaginians traded for Cornish tin. The early colonizing nations were the Phonecians and the Greeks. Tarshish here is a reference to the mercantile power of Britain which is inextricably linked with the Emirs of Arabia. Silver and iron were minerals that could be found in many locations in the area of the Mediterranean Sea. The reason for this was not simply the tempestuous character of the weather, but the obscuration of the heavens which prevented observations being taken for the steering of the ship (Acts 27:20).3. ATS Bible Dictionary. commonassociation of the metal withthe western Mediterranean. In the late Bronze Age and into the early Iron Age, tin was a necessary ingredient for making bronze. It is reputed to be the oldest mine in the world.). Tarshish is also the name of a modern village in the Mount Lebanon District of Lebanon, and Tharsis is a modern village in Southern Spain. (3) Phoenicia.It was from the Phoenicians that the Mediterranean peoples learned seamanship and skill in navigation. Gen 10:4-5 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. The land of Kittim is Cyprus, and in the references in Isaiah it is associated with Tyre and the ships of Tarshish. The name of a place which first comes into notice in the days of Solomon. Tarshish may have settled nearby in today's Lebanon. [30] This idea stems from the fact that Tarshish is recorded to have been a trader in tin, silver, gold, and lead [31] which were all mined in Cornwall. Jeremiah 10:9 There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple for their clothing; they are all the work of skillful men. One view locates Tarshish to the East, accessible from Solomon's great seaport at Ezion Geber on the Red Sea. Magog settled in today's Turkey. The same place-name occurs in the Akkadian inscriptions of Esarhaddon (the Assyrian king, d.669BC) and also on the Phoenician inscription of the Nora Stone in Sardinia; its precise location was never commonly known, and was eventually lost in antiquity. This may be referenced in Psalm48:7 which records "By the east wind you shattered the ships of Tarshish." Gomer is Southern Russia, and Germany. In this feature, unless otherwise indicated, we use the term "Tarshish" as synonymous with Tartessos in Spain. When Job compares his days to "the swift ships" ("the ships of reed" the Revised Version margin), the allusion is most likely to Egypt's, these being skiffs with a wooden keel and the rest of bulrushes, sufficient to carry one person, or at most two, and light, to travel swiftly (9:26). Tarshish must have been established prior to the 10th century BC. It is the association of Sheba and Dedan with "the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions" (Ezek 38:13) which helps to define these powers. Experts have positioned it as far away as India in the east and the far coast of Spain in the west. The cargo (phortion, Acts 27:10, the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American) "lading") in this case was wheat (Acts 27:38), but another word is used, gomos, by Luke of a ship's load of varied wares (Acts 21:3; compare Revelation 18:11).Of those engaged in handling the ship we find (Acts 27:11) the master (kubernetes), the owner (naukleros, although this expression seems not quite consistent with the ownership of a grain ship of the imperial service, and Ramsay's distinction between the words, making the former "sailing-master" and the latter "captain," may be better), the sailors (Acts 27:30, who treacherously sought to lower the ship's boat on the pretense of laying out anchors from the "foreship" or prow, and to get away from the doomed vessel).Of operations belonging to the navigation of the vessel in the storm there were(1) the taking on board of the ship's boat and securing it with ropes (Acts 27:16, in which operation Luke seems to have taken part; compare Acts 27:32),(2) the undergirding of the ship (Acts 27:17, using helps, that is taking measures of relief and adopting the expedient, only resorted to in extremities, of passing cables under the keel of the ship to keep the hull together and to preserve the timbers from starting),(3) the lowering of the gear (Acts 27:17, reducing sail, taking down the mainsail and the main yard),(4) throwing freight overboard and later casting out the tackling of the ship (Acts 27:19),(5) taking soundings (Acts 27:28),(6) letting go four anchors from the stern (Acts 27:29, stern-anchoring being very unusual, but a necessity in the circumstances),(7) further lightening the ship by throwing the wheat into the sea (Acts 27:38),(8) cutting the anchor cables, unlashing the rudders, hoisting up the foresail to the wind, and holding straight for the beach (Acts 27:40).Of the parts of the ship's equipment there are mentioned "the sounding lead" (bolis, though it is the verb which is here used), "the anchors" (agkurai, of which every ship carried several, and which at successive periods have been made of stone, iron, lead and perhaps other metals, each having two flukes and being held by a cable or a chain), "the rudders" (pedalia, of which every ship had two for steering, which in this case had been lifted out of the water and secured by "bands" to the side of the ship and unlashed when the critical moment came), "the foresail" artemon, not the mainsail, but the small sail at the bow of the vessel which at the right moment was hoisted to the wind to run her ashore), and "the boat" (skaphe, which had been in tow in the wake of the vessel, according to custom still prevalent in those seas-coasting-vessels being sometimes becalmed, when the crew get into the small boat and take the ship in tow, using the oars to get her round a promontory or into a position more favorable for the wind). (2003). Tarshish can refer to either Tarsis in Cilicia (Southeast Turkey) or to Tarshish (Tartessos to the Greeks) in Southwest Spain. Again, cedar trees were brought from Lebanon by sea to Joppa, and thence conveyed to Jerusalem (Ezra 3:7).From Joppa Jonah fled to avoid compliance with God's command to go to Nineveh and preach repentance there (Jonah 1:1). The king of Greece being signified by a "shaggy" goat. Nicol. Oil is transacted in US dollars. The location of Tarshish has been lost to time and has given rise to much discussion. Here, Tarshish is certainly a large island, and cannot be confused with Tarsus (Thompson and Skaggs 2013). The location Tharsis in Spain is probably so named by the. ), (1) A distant port from which silver, iron, tin, lead, ivory, monkeys, and peacocks were brought to Palestine (cf. In Revelation there is a representation of the fall of Babylon in language reminiscent of the fall of Tyre (Ezekiel 27), in which lamentations arise from the merchants of the earth who can no more buy her varied merchandise (ton gomon, "cargo" the Revised Version margin), and shipmasters and passengers and seafaring people look in terror and grief upon the smoke of her burning (Revelation 18:12-18).LITERATURE.The usual books on Greek and Roman antiquities furnish descriptions and illustrations. Tarshish was a son of Javan, who settled the area of Southern Greece. Tarshish appears to be a wealthy trading community on the extremity of the Mediterranean world. [32], Bochart, apart from Spain (see there), also suggested eastern localities for the ports of Ophir and Tarshish during King Solomon's reign, specifically the Tamilakkam continent (present day South India and Northern Ceylon) where the Dravidians were well known for their gold, pearls, ivory and peacock trade. of When Isaiah pictures Yahweh as a better defense of Judah than the rivers and streams of Assyria and Egypt are to their people he says, "There Yahweh will be with us in majesty, a place of broad rivers and streams, wherein shall go no galley with oars ('oni shayiT), neither shall gallant ship (tsi 'addir) pass thereby.. Thy tacklings (ropes, cables) are loosed; they could not strengthen the foot of their mast, they could not spread the sail" (Isaiah 33:21, 23). Herodotus tells the story of a boat that was driven by a storm past the Pillars of Hercules and ended up in Tertessus: The crew, informed by Corobius of all the circumstances, left him sufficient food for a year. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning, a Sanscrit or Aryan word, meaning "the sea coast.". The size of the vessel is indicated by the fact that there were 276 persons on board, crew and passengers all told (Acts 27:37). What is Tarshish called today? Ezekiel 27:25 The ships of Tarshish were your caravans for your merchandise: and you were replenished, and made very glorious in the heart of the seas. The ships of Tarshish will suffer during the judgments of the Day of the Lord (Isaiah 2:16; Psalm 48:7). ], William Parkin - 1837 "Festus Avinus says expressly that Cadiz was Tarshish. Lipiski, E. (2002). The basis of the trade is a long standing agreement between the Tartessians and the Celts from the British Isles(Spain -Thenandnow). It seems as though today, Britain, as Tarshish, is now playing a subservient role behind the young lions of America in important geo . Tarshish is thought to be located in modern-day Spain or Portugal. The same book notes it as a striking example of the case of a divine and beneficent Providence that "men entrust their lives to a little piece of wood, and passing through the surge on a raft are brought safe to land" (Wisd 14:1-5). Answer (1 of 3): Gog is the Land of Magog, the Prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal. hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? The first century A.D. Jewish historian, Flavius Josephus, wrote that it was the same city as Tarsus, in modern day Turkey, which is the Apostle Pauls hometown. The same partnership existed for the commerce of the West. Tarshish was located on the Mediterranean Sea and was usually identified with the powerful Phoenician trading colony in southwest Spain near modern Cadiz. 3, iv. (a) As regards rigging, the Phoenician ships of the time of Ezekiel, as seen in Assyrian representations, had one mast with one yard and carried a square sail. The Spanish Empire was a dominant world influence in between the late 15th century until the early 19th century. In the boat on which Jesus and the disciples were crossing the Lake after the feeding of the 5,000, Jesus was in the stern "asleep on the cushion" (Mark 4:38, the King James Version "a pillow"; Greek proskephalaion, "headrest"). Tyre was a maritime power and she built her own ships to bring merchandise to Tyre. On shipping and navigation in classical antiquity Smith of Jordanhill, Voyage and Shipwreck of Paul, is still the standard authority.T. Hiram also undertook to make the cedar and the fir into rafts (1 Kings 5:9, dobheroth, the King James Version "floats"; 2 Chronicles 2:16, raphcodhoth, "flotes" the King James Version, "floats" the Revised Version (British and American)) to go by sea and to deliver them to Solomon's men at the place appointed, which the Chronicler tells us was Joppa. Ezekiel 38:13 places Tarshish in the epic event. Now Caesarea has disappeared; and Joppa has only an open roadstead where vessels lie without shelter, and receive and discharge cargo and passengers by means of boats plying between them and the shore. It appears that this name also is used without reference to any locality. The island of Sardinia was always known as a hub of the metals trade in antiquity, and was also called by the ancient Greeks as Argyrphleps nsos "island of the silver veins". The Spanish Empire was a dominant world influence between the late 15th century and the early 19th century. If we can locate Tarshish in the ancient world we can identify Tarshish in the last- days prophecies. Bible verses about Tarshish. According to historians, Nineveh is an ancient city in present day Iraq. Nevertheless, tin and amber do certainly come to us from the ends of the earth. Ancient evidencegoes back to TheHistories byHerodotus who wroteabout 450BC and isknown as the Fatherof Ancient History. The firs album appeared in 2005with the title La ruta del estao (The Tin Route). Today each is just a shadow of their former selves. Where is biblical Tarsus located? Thecommodities that came Tarshish are listed above and this gives us a clue as to where Tarshish was located. (2) ploiarion, "a little boat" (Mark 3:9 and two other places, John 6:22; 21:8). The Merchants of Tarshish. Thus, since there was such substantial trade with the continent known today as America, "the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof" must include the "young lions" of the United States, along with those of Britain and kindred folk in northern Europe. Proud member . Mosul is its modern day name. Jonah 1:3; 4:2. The Jews like the Egyptians and the Assyrians had a natural shrinking from the sea, and Ecclesiasticus interprets their feeling when he says: "They that sail on the sea tell of the danger thereof; and when we hear it with our ears, we marvel" (43:24).III. Archealogical research in Cornwall recently identified ancient harbour facilities along with evidence of ancient structures. For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought lowAnd upon all the ships of Tarshish(Isaiah 2:12-16). In the 14th century, in the northern highlands of the Horn of Africapresent-day Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, and Djiboutithe story of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba took on a new meaning. A possible explanation is the influence of British mining concerns which owned the giant Rio Tinto Company with mines between Huelva and Tharsis in the 19th century. One of the connections with Biblical prophecy is found in Isaiah 60. Some people say it was somewhere around the island of Crete. to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil? From the land of Kittim it is revealed to them. (3) ploion, "boat" (Matthew 4:21, 22 and many other places in the Gospels-the ordinary fishingboat of the Sea of Galilee rendered "boat" uniformly in the Revised Version (British and American) instead of "ship" the King James Version), "ship" (Acts 20:13, and all other places where the ship carrying Paul is mentioned, except Acts 27:41, as above). B.C. TARSHISH (Heb. 2. 4 Ways the Parable of the Sower Encourages Spiritual Growth. It was the birth pains of a nation being re-born that had not existed in over 2400 years. Herein, how far is Tarshish from Joppa? In the "Blessing of Jacob" and in the "Blessing of Moses" Zebulun and Issachar are so connected (Genesis 49:13 Deuteronomy 33:19); and in Deborah's Song, which is acknowledged to be a very early fragment of Hebrew literature, Dan and Asher are also spoken of as connected with the life and work of the sea (Judges 5:17). However, seemingly insignificant things in the Bible are sometimes the key to unlocking its greatest treasures. He is placed on the Timeline of the Bible after the Flood, around 2300 BC. Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary - Tarshish, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Tarshish, The name of a place which first comes into notice in the days of Solomon. Ezekiel 38:13 imparts several important clues to the reader. In this case, knowing the location of Tarshish unveils little known prophecies in Psalms and Isaiah that were not fulfilled until the twentieth century.If you look up Tarshish in different biblical commentaries, you will get different answers about its location. Where is Tarshish today? Isaiah 2:16 For all the ships of Tarshish, and for all pleasant imagery. Marayong NSW 2148 Tarshish is also the name of a modern village in the Mount Lebanon District of Lebanon . It is from Tyre and Egypt and even Assyria and Babylonia, rather than from their own waters, that the Hebrew prophets and psalmists drew their pictures of seafaring life.II. Ezekiel 27:12 Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded for your wares. He wrote: Now these are thefarthest regions ofthe world in Asiaand Libya. What country is Nineveh today? Cush is Ethiopia. Spain is economically weak and is only a small part of the EU. At the end of July, Tarshish, who has been working alongside people with disabilities since before the ADA's passage, was among the more than 1,000 people who gathered at the Minnesota History. The Assyrian monuments contain representations of naval engagements and of operations on the seacoast. [5] Cross read the inscription to understand that it was referring to Tarshish as Sardinia. Was there a joint nautical venture on the Mediterranean Sea by Tyrian Phoenicians and Early Israelites?'. The first time it is mentioned in scriptures as a place, it states that King Solomon sent his ships there to trade. One or two of the particulars of this description may be commented upon. In the Acts of the Apostles:It is Paul's voyages which yield us the knowledge that we possess from Biblical sources of ships in New Testament times. Again we see that the exact alignment of nations predicted in Ezekiel 38 is in place today. Control of this precious metal which the Tartessians combined with copper to produce bronze, allows the Tartessians to live in great comfort. It was one of the most important, and at times the dominant, city of Phoenicia, whose citizens claimed it had been founded by the great god Melqart. 5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every . Tiras. When God commanded Jonah to go preach to Nineveh (500 miles NE of Israel), he headed to Tarshish, which was as far in the other direction as he could go (see Jonah 1:1-3). Today the population of the United States is made up basically of Celto-Saxon . Tarshish and the United Monarchy of Israel. In the Oracle against Tyre, the prophet Ezekiel (27:12) mentions that silver, iron, lead, and tin came to Tyre from Tarshish (Trsys). We understand that Tarshish was west of Israel leading some historians to believe it was located in what is today south-west Spain, especially as the Phoenicians had important colonies in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, rich in minerals with Cadiz as a vital trading port. For in the first place the name Eridanus is manifestly not a barbarian word at all, but a Greek name, invented by some poet or other; and secondly, though I have taken vast pains, I have never been able to get an assurance from an eye-witness that there is any sea on the further side of Europe. 1. If it's Spain, the young lions would have to be Mexico, parts of South America, etc. Thompson, C.M. Already in the time of David commercial relations had been established between Israel and Tyre (2 Samuel 5:11 f). (Ezekiel 38:13). That Tarshish was situated in the west is evident from . .hide-if-no-js { I think this is an amazing Old Testament verse, in the fact that it mentions both God the father and Jesus the son, who is called the Holy One of Israel. It is also a prophecy that was literally fulfilled in the last years before 1948. ); and perhaps a nation founded by him ().It is thought that most of the names in the table of nations refer to groups as well as to individuals from whom they were descended; this person presumably is the progenitor of a Mediterranean people. 1. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity" ( Jonah 4:2 ). Both are now located in Lebanon, with Tyre 20 mi south of Sidon and only 12 mi north of the Israel-Lebanon border. Isaiah 23:6 Pass over to Tarshish! Bible concordance for TARSHISH. In regard to tin, the trade of Tarshish in this metal is peculiarly significant, and, taken in conjunction with similarity of name and other circumstances already mentioned, is reasonably conclusive as to its identity with Tartessus. What is Tarshish called today? The Spanish Empire was a dominant world influence in between the late 15th century until the early 19th century. There is a very close similarity of name between them, Tartessus being merely Tarshish in the Aramaic form. He found a ship bound for Tarshish as far toward the West as Nineveh to the East. Meshech (also spelled Meshek) and Tubal were sons of Japheth, one of the three sons of Noah who survived the flood with him ( Genesis 10:1-2 ). They were stored in Tyre and resold, probably to Mesopotamia. They were possessed of a considerable seaboard along the Mediterranean, but the character of their coast gave little encouragement to navigation. 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